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Letter from Linus Pauling to Lucile Jenkins. Page 1. January 20, 1969
Letter from Linus Pauling to Lucile Jenkins. January 20, 1969. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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  • Letter from Beryl L. Reubens, Director of Public Relations, Mount Sinai Hospital, to LP RE: Thanks him for sending the edited version of the talk he gave at the Dedication Colloquium on October 20th, which he is very grateful for, especially considering LP had to edit around 20 pages of rough transcript. Mentions that now that they have a copy of his talk, they can proceed with producing a "Book of the Proceedings of the Day", which LP will receive once it is completed. Notes that he will send LP the proofs. Includes handwritten note by LP in top margin of page: "File Mt. Sinai". [Letter from LP to Reubens, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1968-1971), Box #261, Folder #261.2]
  • Letter from Dr. Abram Hoffer to LP RE: Gives the name of Dr. Herman A. Dickel, Portland Medical Center, as a reference for a practicing physician in Portland interested in treating mental patients with megavitamin therapy. Mentions his previous letter to LP and asks again if he would be interested in serving as honorary chairman, honorary president, active chairman, or active president of the Orthomolecular Foundation, in the process of being created. [Letter from Hoffer to LP, 5, 1969] [Letter from LP to Hoffer, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hoffer, Abram (1957-1989)), Box #160, Folder #160.5]
  • Letter from Dr. Arthur Cherkin, Chief, Psychobiology Research, Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital, to LP RE: Encloses the MEDLARS Bibliography on Ascorbic Acid requested in 1968; attaches all accompanying correspondence. Mentions that Professor James L. McGaugh, Dean, University of California, Irvine, was interested in having LP give a lecture on campus and that he enjoyed the manuscript "Kinetics of Memory Consolidation: Role of Amnesic Treatment Parameters". [Letter from LP to Cherkin, 1, 1969] [Letter from Cherkin to LP, 3, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Individual Correspondence (Chamberlain - Cherkin)), Box #64, Folder #64.9]
  • Letter from Dr. Harvey Itano, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, to LP RE: Confirms that he will be in La Jolla on January 29th and would like to visit with LP. Asks LP's opinion about whether Huang and Kosower would be unable to reproduce Itano's results simply because they used a different method to create ferrohemoglobin and ferrihemoglobin from phenyldiimide, creating the trans form of the molecule, rather than the cis form. Encloses a reprint of their paper on immunoglobulins. [Letter from LP to Itano, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Individual Correspondence (Ibers - Itano)), Box #181, Folder #181.5]
  • Letter from Dr. O.L. Gericke Patton State Hospital to LP RE: Expresses his willingness to work with LP on his studies of vitamin metabolism in normal subjects and acute schizophrenics. (Response to letter sent January 16, 1969
  • Letter from LP to Alice Elconin RE: Suggests that she write to the director of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, about her story; notes that if the substance is common, there is no way to get patent protection, but if it is not ordinary, there may be commercial firms interested in marketing it and advertising it. [Letter from LP to Elconin, 7, 1969] [Letter from Elconin to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Elconin, 3, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), Box #113, Folder #113.10]
  • Letter from LP to Coleman Shaunty RE: Tells Shaunty that there is a special preparation called Low Phenylac which is used by patients with phenylketonuria and can be purchased from a pharmacy. Mentions that Dr. Hoffer has given the name of Dr. Donald Adams as a local physician interested in orthomolecular psychiatry. [Letter from LP to Shaunty, 5, 1968] [Letter from Shaunty to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Shaunty, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1968-1969), Box #385, Folder #385.2]
  • Letter from LP to Donald F. Glover RE: Regretfully informs Glover that he has not been following the field of antibodies very closely in the past few years. Suggests that he read the three papers on antibodies in Structural Chemistry and Molecular Biology. [Letter from LP to Glover, 5, 1969] [Letter from Glover to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1966-1969), Box #143, Folder #143.4]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Daj Tyrrell, Common Cold Research Unit, to LP RE: Informs Tyrrell that he has read his article that was published in the British Medical Journal on March 11, 1967 and asks about the statement made on page 604 regarding volunteers receiving 3 grams of ascorbic acid daily by mouth for three days before receiving a small dose of virus. Says that there is no evidence the volunteers received ascorbic acid after the inoculation and asks for clarification. [Letter from Tyrrell to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1964-1969), Box #412, Folder #412.6]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. George Brecher, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, RE: Discusses the story of the discovery of sickle-cell-anemia hemoglobin. [Letter from LP to Brecher, 7, 1969] [Letter from Brecher to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. John A. Whieldon RE: Thanks Whieldon for the Christmas card and encloses a copy of his paper that was published in April 1968. Mentions that he has had difficulty finding psychiatrists interested in trying megavitamin therapy with mental patients, even though the treatment suggested by LP is nontoxic and cheap, with very few side effects. Also says that Professor Arthur B. Robinson is currently doing studies of the metabolism of vitamins by ordinary people and schizophrenics, which has revealed that schizophrenia is somehow the result of dietary deficiencies. [Letter from Whieldon to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1966-1970), Box #447, Folder #447.4]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. E. R. Buchman RE: Apologizes for being unable to come to Cal Tech for the first Buchman Lectures. [Letter from Buchman to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Individual Correspondence (Buchbinder - Butler)), Box #33, Folder #33.2]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. Marion Krist RE: Promises to send a copy of his paper "Orthomolecular Psychiatry", along with some other material. Tells her that megavitamin therapy has proven useful for many patients with mental illness and suggests ingestion of 3 grams per day of ascorbic acid, along with 3 grams per day of niacin or niacinamide, which should be taken in increments of 1 gram each at the end of each meal. [Letter from Krist to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #203, Folder #203.3]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. Marion Krist, RE: Apologize for the long delay in responding her letter. Sends her a copy of his paper and some other material. Suggests that it is best to take vitamins in amounts of 1 gram of ascorbic acid and 1 gram of niacin at the end of each meal. [Letter from Mrs. Marion Krist to LP, 1, 1968] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Correspondence concerning orthomolecular psychiatry, 1962-1988, Box# 11.079, Folder# 79.3]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. R. D. Logan RE: Tells her that he is pleased her neurosurgeon approved of her use of niacin. Admits that he does not have enough knowledge of medicine to give an appraisal of Ritalin and Arlidin. Mentions that he believes that lithium carbonate is of value in only one type of mental illness, which is not what Logan suffers from. [Letter from LP to Logan, 6, 1969] [Letter from Logan to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #234, Folder #234.3]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. R. Waldemar Anderson RE: Apologizes for not knowing a doctor in Seattle interested in orthomolecular psychiatry; sends a copy of his paper and other material for he to read. [Letter from Anderson to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1966-1969), Box #15, Folder #15.4]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. R. Waldemar Anderson, RE: Apologize for the delay in responding her letter. LP is sorry that he has not found the name of a doctor in the Seattle area interested in megavitamin therapy. Points out that it would be a great mistake if she take her daughter off the drugs prescribed to control her epilepsy, and it might be good to intake a larger amount of vitamins, especially vitamin C and vitamin B3. Sends her a copy of his paper with some other material. [Letter from Mrs. R. Waldemar Anderson, 1, 1968] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Correspondence concerning orthomolecular psychiatry, 1962-1988, Box# 11.079, Folder# 79.3]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Arthur B. Robinson, University of California, San Diego, RE: Mentions that David Wofsy talked to him about his rotation work with them. Says that he believes that Wofsy may be able to help Robinson in the analysis of the results obtained with ascorbic acid, nicotinic acid, etc., with respect to urine volume or other facts. Notes that Wofsy will come to see Robinson to discuss this. [Letter from Robinson to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Robinson, Arthur B.), Box #331, Folder #331.1]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Robert G. Parr, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, RE: Apologizes for being unable to accept Parr's invitation to participate in the Symposium on Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Biology because of conflicting engagements. [Letter from LP to Parr, 7, 1969] [Letter from Parr to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1964-1969), Box #315, Folder #315.6]
  • Letter from Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, to LP RE: Tells LP that he recently met an acquaintance's cousin, Heinrich Heyszl, a theoretical physicist at Gulf General Atomic. Asks if LP would be willing to meet with Heyszl and gives Heyszl's address. Includes handwritten note by Sheinbaum in bottom margin of page regarding a note he received from AHP about selling their house. [Letter from LP to Sheinbaum, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1968-1969), Box #385, Folder #385.2]
  • Letter from Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman and Company, to LP RE: Encloses material from Trev Leger, W. H. Freeman and Company's representative in the Midwest, and requests that LP look it over and give his comments. Includes handwritten notes by LP in bottom margin of page: "Mention (electron cloud?) larger than bond, wordy. Ch. Rev. - no mention of my curves or of ≡ NH2- for HCONH2, which is old stuff." [Letter from LP to Schaefer, 1, 1969] [Letter from Schaefer to LP, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1960-1992, No Date), Box #440, Folder #440.10]